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I'm going to be buying a new laptop soon (a Mac of some sort), and I'm trying to decide whether to buy an expensive one with good graphics and a 15' screen, or buy a less expensive laptop and a good console for my 34" HDTV. I haven't owned a gaming console in decades, so I'm curious what...

That made me laugh. :D I'm currently reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. Next up, either Little, Big, by John Crowley or Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia, by Karl Taro Greenfeld.

The Spelll Treasury has the spells from the CBoEM, as well as AE conversions of many D&D core spells, and a bunch of brand new spells. I highly recommend it. It doesn't have any rules for adding spells to spell lists though. It just uses the default rule that spellcasters can choose any...

This is listed as "Set 1" and is only 4 DVDs, so it's not going to be the whole series. I have the region-free British version, and it's a total of 8 DVDs, jam-packed with extra materials. My guess is that this set will contain the first two seasons, with Michael Praed as Robin Hood.

Korm squeaks like a frightened little girl and hides under his bed.

I adore Charles de Lint's short stories, and it's probably easiest to read the collections in the order of publication, starting with Dreams Underfoot. The order really doesn't matter for most of his books, with the exception of The Onion Girl and Widdershins, which shouldn't be read until...

Didn't Freedom City 2e come out in January 2006? If so, that's definitely up there. Deadlands Reloaded. Secrets of the Ruined Temple for Mage: the Awakening. It changed the rather dull and heavy-handed Atlantis myth from the MtA core book and made it both cool and gameable. I've heard that...

I plan on getting it, but not to use with D&D. I'm going to have fun speculating about what aspects of it might end up in 4e, but only as a fun dorky intellectual exercise, not something I'll actually port over to a D&D game. It sounds like some of its general design philosophies are parallel...

I adore the architectural pieces from Eberron and other books. I don't especially like the portraits, and the action scenes vary greatly, but the pictures depicting buildings, cityscapes, ancient ruins, building interiors, the lightning rail, Lyrandar airships, and so on are spectacular. They...

I have to agree with those recommending Guy Gavriel Kay. He's probably my favorite living author. Tigana is probably my favorite of his, but the Sarantine Mosaic comes a very close second. Steven Brust is also excellent, with interesting characters, exciting plots, and fun prose. Along...

I finished The Stolen Child last week. I read about 100 pages of Old Man's War yesterday, and so far it's quite enjoyable.

I've read about one third of Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman, but I'm reading it slowly, to savour every story and poem. I just finished Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have three books in my bag now, and I don't know which I'm going to start next. - The Stolen...

After watching Firefly and re-reading the Fading Suns rpg, I'm in the mood for a good dramatic sci-fi book or space opera. I don't know of many, so can someone recommend something intersting, whether a novel, graphic novel, or manga?

Ah, wonderful. I love that recording. I just wish that he had recorded the whole poem, not an abridged version. I'm finishing up William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties. Next up, maybe Heart of Darkness, maybe Anonymous Lawyer.

When laymen and psychotherapists talk about behavior therapy, they're most often talking about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT focuses a great deal on thoughts and emotions, and places a lot of weight on their influence. Purely behavioral interventions like you're talking about are...

All of Neil Gaiman's fantasies are not at all Tolkienesque. Stardust is a modern old fashioned faerie tale. Neverwhere is a weird fantasy under modern London. Guy Gavriel Kay's books also are not Tolkienesque (except for the Fionavar Tapestry), being essentially historical fiction set in...

Likewise. And even then, I'll have to debate whether I want to spend time reading it instead of a few smaller books that I could read in a quarter of the time, like Moby Dick, Les Miserables, and War and Peace.

True20 would be a perfect fit, IMO. All the characters could be easily classified as either Warriors or Experts. Those with powers generally only have one or two, and gain them from their race/background. Level-based combat fits the ST genre well; why does Picard, an older man with little...

Sacred cows that I think are neccessary to make D&D D&D: - Classes - Levels (though you could easily space out the levels to allow for more character progression without them becoming too powerful too quickly). - Defined Spells. As much as I like flexible magic systems like Mage and True20, a...

Those are some great Dragon covers! I'm looking forward to the Art of Dragon book. For me, the cover art for the old Basic D&D boxed sets exemplify D&D, Basic through Immortal. Of more recent book covers, Mage the Awakening is stunningly beautiful, especially in person.